Quote for Today: Robert Frost
A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem …
Quote for Today: Avina Celeste
Your true self is enough. There is no need to be better than everyone else around you to be happy. True happiness comes when you are in harmony with yourself …
Quote for Today: Ronan Farrow
Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don’t really tell the kids that it’s okay to bounce around the world, work odd …
Quote for Today: Walter Farley
I believe that half the trouble in the world comes from people asking ‘What have I achieved?’ rather than ‘What have I enjoyed?’ I’ve been writing about a subject I …
Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
The word I love is Arete. It has a simple meaning and a complicated meaning. The simple one is: excellence. But if that were all, we’d just use Excellence and …
Quote for Today: Lloyd Douglas
For many years a tree might wage a slow and silent warfare against an encumbering wall, without making any visible progress. One day the wall would topple–not because the tree …
Quote for Today: Farid ud Din ‘Attar
You think your monarch’s palace of more worth Than Him who fashioned it and all the earth. The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a …
Quote for Today: Emily Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting …
Echoes of Water: Drumming by Katherine McDaniel
Humans living in modern cities have access to medicine, food and abundance. Despite opportunities, why are many of us unfulfilled? A few years ago, Houston Grand Opera sponsored a magical program …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above …